PHYSICS 110B
Electricity and Magnetism
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 110A. Corequisite: course 105B. Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, potential and fields, radiation, Lorentz invariance. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2021 - This is the worst class I've taken at UCLA. You are probably considering taking a class with VVV to become better at physics. Well, don't do that. You won't learn anything from his lectures. All he does is point at his lecture notes and mumble. His HOME ASSIGNMENTS (that's right, not homework, but HOME ASSIGNMENTS) are time consuming to say the least and will make you neglect all of your other classes. I know you are thinking that VVV will make you a better physics major, but trust me, you can just learn using the textbook with any other professor. This class truly sucked the living soul out of me, and I can't say I came out of it as a better student. Also, his exams are absolutely horrendous. After each exam, it felt like I was in the wrong class (and the wrong major). The average for the first midterm was ~58, the second ~43 and the third exam (non-cumulative "final" exam) ~40. He even sent us an email explaining how disappointed he was in our averages. It's completely his fault. He can't just mumble through the lectures without picking up a pen and expect people to follow along. Don't take this class, trust me.
Spring 2021 - This is the worst class I've taken at UCLA. You are probably considering taking a class with VVV to become better at physics. Well, don't do that. You won't learn anything from his lectures. All he does is point at his lecture notes and mumble. His HOME ASSIGNMENTS (that's right, not homework, but HOME ASSIGNMENTS) are time consuming to say the least and will make you neglect all of your other classes. I know you are thinking that VVV will make you a better physics major, but trust me, you can just learn using the textbook with any other professor. This class truly sucked the living soul out of me, and I can't say I came out of it as a better student. Also, his exams are absolutely horrendous. After each exam, it felt like I was in the wrong class (and the wrong major). The average for the first midterm was ~58, the second ~43 and the third exam (non-cumulative "final" exam) ~40. He even sent us an email explaining how disappointed he was in our averages. It's completely his fault. He can't just mumble through the lectures without picking up a pen and expect people to follow along. Don't take this class, trust me.
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Spring 2023 - Just don't. Half of the class gave up on going to his lectures because they became pointless. He's a great person but a pretty bad teacher. I felt good about the homeworks and then got absolutely destroyed by the midterm. He already had a pretty generous grading scheme set up from the beginning but he still had to curve a LOT at the end because the averages for the exams were ~50% (a C- in his initial grading setup). It was difficult to follow his lectures as he'd jump around a lot and get caught up on simple mistakes. The exams were not like the homework, and if you didn't study all of Griffiths you were screwed.
Spring 2023 - Just don't. Half of the class gave up on going to his lectures because they became pointless. He's a great person but a pretty bad teacher. I felt good about the homeworks and then got absolutely destroyed by the midterm. He already had a pretty generous grading scheme set up from the beginning but he still had to curve a LOT at the end because the averages for the exams were ~50% (a C- in his initial grading setup). It was difficult to follow his lectures as he'd jump around a lot and get caught up on simple mistakes. The exams were not like the homework, and if you didn't study all of Griffiths you were screwed.
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